#chapter 1087

[deathsdreams]

After one month and five days break...

One piece is back 🥹🤩

[daybreakerreal]

Man Oda came back just to tear our hearts out huh.

[chromatic-lamina]

Ace not only lighting up the capybara's bath. That dude up the top's gonna burn one down, right?

[curlybrow-kun]

teeny head

[zotash]

Knowing Oda it's never gonna happen, but I really want to see Tashigi cut that hand and get some spotlight 😭 plus it'd be a nice Zoro parallel

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Back in Action

Hey hey! We have made it through Hiatus 2: Void Month redux. If you’ve read 1087 you know the big beat our first selection is leading up to. I don’t need to explain the significant parallel. It’s so on point and that’s always been Koby’s deal. We’re seeing where he’s at now by comparing it to an earlier point in Luffy’s journey. But here’s my big subtlety; the crane strikes again. 

That was one of our biggest foundational things for mystery about Kiku. One of her first acts in Bakura, right after we’re done setting the Crane Wife bit, is getting Luffy to slow down, take stock, and proceed with care. Izo was the one trying to calm Ace from Akainu’s provocation. Grus, Latin for crane, is the one trying to snap Koby out of falling for a basic damsel in distress ploy. All in all, it’s more of the same. I wondered if we’d get something hot returning to Egghead post-hiatus...but this one wasn’t like the last. Oda took time off for health. That’s what I was feeling up til the last page.

Boom! Big, big moment of the story. Garp’s fate up in the air, and what do we load it with around the margins. Poor baby Hibari breaking down about not being enough. We need to stop kicking around these sweetiemuffins. Less angst, more blankies & cocoa. Garp speaking this big running line of composure to cement how Koby’s story parallels Luffy’s, though it made me enjoy how calm he was about such a ridiculous counter to firebreathing. But Avalo Pizarro my guy! Way to add in some funky storytelling! I absolutely adores how he echoes the narrators of Kidd/Law’s downfall scenes but as an actual line. While he’s also dropping this motif of stepping out of the leader’s shadow. The subversion makes me think Sword & Garp can get out of this one, but we’ll see. 

Either way, that was a supercharged burst of the core thematic territory we’ve been looking at coming in at the tail end. Which made me think a little more about the Battleship Bag story at the start. It’s that same style of writing, it all comes together in the end but I love we see this full display for Garp starting off with the idea of cementing he did it all through grit and dedication. Koby’s story already connected SWORD’s story to this “pinnacle of the mundane” element, working Garp & Aokiji into all of that is even cooler. Also says a lot about Garp how he’s changed towards his two proteges.  

[dannys-doritos]

Luffy would have so much fun in Yharnam

[bubblo]

the new one piece chapter start vs finish